Genetic variant
rs1171615
rs1171615 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 10. Carrying it does not, on its own, mean you have or will develop any condition.
What is this?
Your DNA is a long sequence of four letters. At a few million positions, people commonly differ by a single letter; each of those positions is called a SNP (“snip”), and rs1171615 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.
We hold only the basic reference record for this variant: its ID and position. Many catalogued variants have never been linked to anything.
Why might it matter?
ClinVar holds no clinical classification for this variant. That is the usual case: most catalogued variants have no known effect on health.
Do I have this variant?
If you have taken a consumer DNA test (23andMe, AncestryDNA and similar), you can download its raw data file and check. Create a free account, upload the file, and this page will show the letters you carry at rs1171615, if your test read this position.
Connect this with your blood results
A gene is a fixed instruction; a blood test shows what your body is doing now. CheckMyBloods reads the two side by side, so a variant can be set against the markers it could plausibly affect.
Blood markers do not diagnose a genetic condition, and a variant does not explain a blood result on its own. Together, with symptoms and family history, they give a clinician context.
What should I do next?
- Find out whether you carry it. Reading about a variant says nothing about you until you know your genotype.
- Put it in context. Add your blood results, so the variant can be read against what your body is doing.
- Ask questions. Dr. Hemsworth, our AI assistant, can explain this variant and your results in plain English.
- Take anything that worries you to a professional. A GP or genetic counsellor can order a confirmatory test and interpret it with your history.
This page is general information drawn from public research databases. It cannot diagnose anything, and it is not a substitute for advice from a doctor or genetic counsellor who knows your history.
Technical details
- dbSNP ID
- rs1171615
- Position
- chr10:59709332
Genome-wide association studies (20)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height | C | β 0.024 | 3E-223 | PubMed |
| Propionylcarnitine levels | T | OR 29 | 7E-185 | PubMed |
| Metabolite levels (carnitine) | T | OR 0.39 | 9E-127 | PubMed |
| Carnitine-to-X-12798 ratio | T | β 0.077 | 2E-95 | PubMed |
| Gout (PheCode 274.1) | C | OR 0.14 | 6E-55 | PubMed |
| X-12798 levels | T | OR 0.28 | 6E-52 | PubMed |
| Serum metabolite levels | C | OR 0.45 | 3E-48 | PubMed |
| Plasma carnitine levels in chronic kidney disease | T | β 0.083 | 2E-45 | PubMed |
| Metabolite levels (propionylcarnitine; propionylcarnitine (C3); C3 carnitine; C3_carnitine) | T | OR 0.23 | 5E-42 | PubMed |
| X-12798 levels | T | β 0.048 | 3E-34 | PubMed |
| Testosterone levels | C | β 0.041 | 3E-31 | PubMed |
| Acetylcarnitine (c2) levels | T | OR 0.29 | 5E-29 | PubMed |
| Gout (PheCode 274.1) | C | OR 0.11 | 2E-27 | PubMed |
| Height (maximum, inv-normal transformed) | C | β 0.042 | 1E-24 | PubMed |
| height (mean, inv-normal transformed) | C | β 0.042 | 4E-24 | PubMed |
| (S)-3-hydroxybutyrylcarnitine levels | T | OR 0.17 | 1E-21 | PubMed |
| height (minimum, inv-normal transformed) | C | β 0.037 | 5E-21 | PubMed |
| Takes medication for gout? | C | OR 0.12 | 5E-21 | PubMed |
| Takes medication for gout? | C | OR 0.11 | 1E-20 | PubMed |
| Hexanoylcarnitine levels | T | OR 9.2 | 4E-20 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs1171615 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies